Word: makeshifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disjointed Tale. The tennis balls were human heads. It was quickly evident that there were hundreds of them in patches hidden by fog. There were rafts and makeshift rafts on which humans, crying in thin voices, clustered like sodden bees. The rescue vessels began pulling them aboard, and moving blindly on with whistles braying in eerie chorus...
...their domestic freight business. Eastern Air Lines has abandoned its cargo-liner service, now carries its freight in passenger planes and in pods attached to Constellations. Capital Airlines has "skeletonized" its camp service. American Airlines has dropped four cities off its cargo routes. Other lines are getting by with makeshift schedules, but these will not hold up if MATS decides it needs more planes on the Pacific lift. This week, General Tunner plans to make a flying inspection of the lift, and a firsthand estimate of its future needs...
...assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient supplies, together they tended the sick over an enormous area of jungle. Ellen was horrified when Aganza's primitive cure for a psychiatric case turned out to be a kick in the backside, but it seemed to work...
...Duchess of Idaho (MGM) is an Esther Williams musical, i.e., a pretty body of water surrounded by clichés. It shows plenty of the human form, mostly Swimmer Williams', against the travel-folder backdrop of Sun Valley in Technicolor. The makeshift plot stops and goes at the convenience of the songs, dances and fancy splashing...
...From a makeshift command post in the Manitoba legislature building last week, a composed, greying soldier in the red-tabbed battledress of a brigadier defended besieged Winnipeg against the city's worst flood in a century. His orders flowed by field telephone and radio to 50,000 men sweating on 15 miles of soggy, sandbagged dikes along the surging Red River of the North. Occasionally he hopped into a helicopter for a hurried look at a new danger point. By week's end, as hope mounted that the main crisis had been met with only two lives lost...